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VP for Research & Scholarship @LindaHall_org; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018) All tweets my own.
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Mavis Beacon came up in a trivia game last night, and I suddenly felt ancient when I told the other players that she taught me typing...on a Commodore 64!

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The first thing that came to mind as I read that headline.

(The fact that Musk and Glomgold are both South Africans is purely a coincidence...)

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Well, it looks like I've found a new

(Detail of a hand-colored engraving from LHL's copy of Kaspar Maria von Sternberg's Versuch der Flora der Vorwelt: https://t.co/5o1OqEaQlq)

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Mary Vaux Walcott was an artist who specialized in botanical watercolors.

In 1925, published ~400 of her illustrations in a five-volume work entitled North American Wild Flowers. We have the full set in our rare book collection.

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Happy New Year, friends!

The deadline for fellowship applications is only 2 weeks away (Jan. 15).

You may have heard we're only offering virtual during the 2021-22 academic year. What exactly does that mean? Read on...

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Do you recognize this duck?

Today's lunchtime read: presents a brief biography of Professor Ludwig Von Drake and his contributions to efforts to promote color TV.

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Meanwhile, I'm posting images of what Kepler called the "Fiery Trigon" (L) and trying hard not to reference a certain demonic overlord (R)...

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The lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;

His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods,
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.

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We turn now to chief legal analyst Zapp Branigan!

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And we don't normally have impromptu musical numbers, but here we are...

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